Quotes About Present

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

Grieving and Mourning. As children being abused, and later as adults struggling to survive, most survivors haven't felt their losses. Grieving is a way to honor your pain, let go, and move into the present.

human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

I feel, right now, that if time stopped at this moment, it would be just fine by me.

For a man like Bar-Avo, everything is a constant present.

It is your own thought that takes you away from the joy of the moment.

life is too short not living every second of it

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.

Space I can recover. Time, never.

Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.

The physicist Eugene Wigner talked of "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics"—in delineating the present, disinterring the past, and baking a trustier fortune cookie.

You dont have to live forever just live.

When you write a memory, it isn't in the past anyway. It's alive right now.

Why else are first thoughts so energizing? Because they have to do with freshness and inspiration. Inspiration means "breathing in." Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself, and first thoughts are present. They are not a cover-up of what is actually happening or being felt. The present is imbued with tremendous energy. It is what is.

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

Today is today and tomorrow may come late this year.

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Living in the here and now, we are awash with sensations of the present, memories of the past, and expectations and fears for the future. Our actions are not determined by any one cause; they are the fulfillment of who we are at that particular moment. After that moment passes, we continue to evolve, to change, and our memories of that moment inevitably change with us as we live with the consequences of our past actions, consequences we were unaware of at the time.

He is conscious of the past and present injustices, but he knows that real remedies are to be found in contemporary Christian compassion, and not in compensatory justice.

When you're in the moment everything you want is right.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.